Bug#680932: file-roller: bad encoding as file-roller used 7z instead of 7za when decompressing zip files made under MacOSX

Josselin Mouette joss at debian.org
Thu Jul 12 07:12:15 UTC 2012


reassign 680932 p7zip-full
thanks

Le lundi 09 juillet 2012 à 12:57 +0200, Mahendra TALLUR a écrit :
> this bug occurs when decompressing zip files made under MacOSX (latest
> version), which contain some UTF-8 characters. For instance, it occurs
> with a ZIP file containing japanese characters made under a French OSX
> installation, which is in turn extracted under my system (French
> locale, up to date Wheezy). 
> 
> What is important, is that, encoding is detected properly when using
> 7za from the commandline or when using unzip, but not when using 7z,
> which is summoned by file-roller by default as of today.

I discussed with the maintainer of p7zip, and he agrees this is the root
of the problem.

I’m reassigning for now, since the correct behavior should still be to
use 7z, not 7za.

Cheers,
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